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    *NO* Super Mario 64 & Jazz Jackrabbit 2 'Medieval Koopa Jam'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    Ok so the intro is pretty cool. This kick is really really weak. That needs updating. The sources you've picked are really really cool btw, just saying :P. The leads at 1:20 are too wet in delay. Its undermining the melody and creating a bit of mud. The hand percussion after the lead section is really cool. That lead at 2:13 on is too loud. Also quite strongly panned later on - seems to be automated. Also, your leads have too much delay, the delay is feeding back into the original signal at times. The arrangement is ok, its a little static in texture, and the tempo change could be replaced with a nice breakdown, but the idea of the tempo change is a nice one that we don't see often. I'm not sure its pulled off well here tho. Lead, kick and mixing problems are adding up to a borderline no for me tho. Its close but it needs a little more TLC before I give this the pass myself.

    Keep it at bro!

    NO (resub)

    A Song of Ice and Fire

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So im alittle behind in this whole game of thrones show.

    but with everyone and theyre mother are talking about this show so i thought "might aswell"

    im up to the 5th episode and i like the "bastard" with the coward sam. one of the few characters i enjoy.

    i also like the young girl that dreams of being a knight, she's cool.

    so ok the sex and violence is alittle graphic for a tv show, but eh im sure thats what made it popular, im not too fussed about either.

    except for the horse getting its head cut off.

    i didnt want to see that.

    but hey its a decent show.

    but im sure just like lost i'll lose interest by the second season.

    lets hope not eh?

    Ah you're watching this for the first time... I haven't watched lost - but I bet you don't lose interest with this :D

    Just one word of caution - stay away from anything on the internet related with the books or the show because spoilers are completely unavoidable if you do :P People seem to be VERY inconsiderate in that regard, and you'll probably find out annoying spoilers if you frequent this thread too much as well.

    OCR02701 - *YES* Street Fighter 2 'Murkan Supreme' *RESUB*

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted · Edited by djpretzel

    original decision

    This was my one entry for the Street Fighter contest thing. I had Sixto re-amp the guitars for me because at the time, my amp was getting interference from something. Didn't really set out with a goal in mind apart from making it rock, happened across a bit of a "techno metal" area with the synths and really liked it, and everything just fell into place very nicely. - Brandon Strader

    *NO* Super Metroid 'The Ceres Event'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted · Edited by WillRock

    Ok so this is incredibly awesome. The guitar recording leaves much to be desired with the tinniness and noisiness of it. Its a shame because the other sounds are great. The percussion is completely fantastic. However, this is TOO LOUD. Turn it down. Its fine during the quieter sections like the intro but damn its hot and its clipping. Loud is good but we've got volume knobs for that :) The mix sounds reasonable mixing wise but it is very busy during those louder sections to the point its just a massive wall of sound. Stereo separation could help somewhat but the mixing itself sounds ok to me, its just very busy and noisy due to the loudness. I think just turning this down would give the track much more breathing room.

    Arrangement is great, its dynamic, the sources are handled well...

    This is good stuff.

    Just turning it down so its not so distorted and clipping badly and I think the track would be ok. More Stereo separation could help. I'm not really a fan of that guitar recording... which apparently is just me but oh well, not deal-breaker anyway :P

    Hmm.

    So... great arrangement, great dynamics, great samples, good mixing (it does sound balanced well to me, its just squashed due to loudness from what I can tell).

    I've conditionaled - (Not a real word sozzzzz) - something recently and other judges seems to be against conditionals right now... Just turning down the master so its not clipping and has more breathing space would change this from a NO to YES imo. So yeah i'll conditional. Good luck with the rest of the vote.

    YES(conditional)

    OCR02714 - *YES* Secret of Mana 'Curious' *FALLTHROUGH*

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted · Edited by WillRock

    ooooooooooh now this is cool.

    I'm not a massive fan of the boominess of that kick when its exposed with the bass like that at the intro. The arrangement is really cool. Awesome instrumentation. I'd argue the panning is also intentional - an attempt at invoking the excessive panning of that era, but you got guitar panned to the left and some drums panned to the right, thus making this very very unbalanced. This sounds like some 60's psychedelic instrumental. Unlike larry, I think this is worthy of a conditional because I don't think it'll take long for you to fix with some instructions so... I'd say bring down the panning on the heavy left guitar and the heavy right drums and you've got yourself a YES vote. Panning is fine but keep it from the excessives, i'd say make it 30% at the very most and make sure you've got something else in the other speaker going to balance out the mix if its too lopsided one way. Panning is also about balance, If the mix sounds lopsided too much one way, fix the problem! Do that and I think this is YES! :D

    YES (Conditional on panning) - Revised vote above ^^^^

    *NO* Street Fighter 2 'Murkan Supreme'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    Suitably epic stuff here!

    Mixing issues - Rhythm guitars are slightly too loud at the intro. Wouldn't take much but they need turning down ever so slightly - just in the intro though, its fine after imo. The plucked strings (Koto?) are too loud when the lead guitar is going off, and creates a murky soundscape while taking away focus from the lead. That rhythmic synth has the same problem during the double time section. I've said it before, but you seem to have a knack of overcomplicating your tracks and not creating room for all your instrumentation. It'll sound ok then something will come along and fight for the space another instrument is already occupying. It happens in quite a few of your tracks. Otherwise this sounds fine though. Sounds like the rhythmic synth might be going on at the same time as the plucked strings during the guitar lead part I mentioned earlier? Not sure. It seems to me that the arrangement is fine, I can hear guiles theme clearly, Chun li's is there but a little more subtle, like palp, felt like the other themes didn't really need to be there, guile owns this one :P

    Brickwalled production blahblahblah.

    Mixing issues are very problematic but its really the only major problem. However its throughout. If it was only during one section I'd probably let it slide but its quite prominent.

    After giving it some thought I think I'm going to ask you to send this one back. It won't take much to fix and it'll sound so much better after you've fixed it!

    NO (resub)

    Legacy: Game Boy 25th Anniversary - History

    in Projects

    Posted

    Billy just wanted to stuff up my inbox even though he totally could have easily asked me on aim or skype or anywhere even msn. :-P

    If the AdminiStraders could increase my storage to like 600 messages or something that'd be awesome. People totally send me 600 emails. (´･ω･`)

    I haven't even sent you PM. Shut ur trap :P

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